Atelier signs Series 60 Contractor
Agreement with Nokia
Atelier becomes one of the very first
members of the Series 60 Product
Creation Community
Cannes – 3GSM World Congress –
February 18th, 2003
Atelier a leading provider of wireless
software solutions for Symbian OS
announced today it has signed the Series
60 Contractor agreement with Nokia.
Atelier is among the first companies to
become a member of the product creation
community formed around the Series 60
Platform. Members of the community are
companies who will be able to provide
handset manufacturers with optimized
Series 60 skills and expertise in
successful and timely product creation
of advanced smart phones.
“The Series 60 platform is the de-facto
standard for Symbian OS smartphones, and
Atelier is now offering its tens of man
years of experience in Symbian OS
telephony software and integration to
Series 60 licensees. The collaboration
with Nokia Mobile Software is an
integral part of Atelier’s strategy to
deliver critical wireless software
components to the industry” said Marc
Menschenfreund, CEO, Atelier.
Series 60 Contractors are skilled
software development companies who can
offer licensees specified technologies
and expertise for the Series 60 Platform.
Contractors will be able to fine tune a
product creation project with a valuable
mix of features and applications or
provide specific, targeted
telecommunications engineering project
work.
“Atelier has focused on Symbian OS
telephony and TSY for many years and has
proven track-record in the industry. The
Series 60 Contractors such as Atelier
will benefit licensees with reduced
time-to-market when developing smart
phones based on the Series 60 Platform”
said Jukka Riivari, Director, Sales,
Nokia Mobile Software.
Atelier offers a portfolio of Symbian OS
TSY telephony modules, CSY communication
modules and Series 60 specific telephony
components, fully optimized for the
Series 60 Platform. These customizable
telephony subsystems are available for
leading protocol stacks and application
processors and provide Series 60
licensees with complete telephony
integration in a highly reduced
timeframe.
The new community will serve those
mobile handset manufacturers that have
licensed the Series 60 Platform for
smart phones. Nokia will provide
engineering and technical support to
companies of the community, including
access to programming interfaces and
early releases of new and evolving
functionalities.
The Series 60 Platform is a software
product for smart phones that Nokia
licenses to other mobile-handset
manufacturers. Manufacturers will be
able to integrate Series 60 into their
own phone designs running on top of the
Symbian OS. The Series 60 Platform
includes mobile browsing, multimedia
messaging and content downloading, as
well as a host of personal information
management and telephony applications.
In addition, the software platform
includes a complete and modifiable user
interface library. The current licensees
of the Series 60 are Nokia, Panasonic
Mobile Communications, Samsung, Sendo,
and Siemens, representing roughly the 60
percent of the global mobile handset
market.
About Atelier
Atelier is a leading provider of
wireless software solutions for Symbian
OS and offers mobile device
manufacturers design, development and
customization services for Symbian OS
2.5 and 3G phones. Atelier has deep
expertise in Symbian OS and Series 60
telephony software, and as a Nokia
Series 60 Contractor, can help Series 60
licensees significantly reduce
Time-to-Market of their device, by
providing all the low-level telephony
components. Atelier is a privately held
company founded in 1992. For more
information:
www.atelier.tm
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